Help Support Women In The Blues

Michele Seidmen who runs the National Women In Blues festival in North Carolinia, has a great deal for not only you, but for her great blues show. Check out her press release below.

Dear Folks

If you shop at Belks or love getting special prices
when you go shopping then read on!

Once every season Belk Stores
do a huge sale for ticket holders only! The sale is coming up November 15th from
6am-10am ONLY! This is a special sale with discounts from 20-50% on Brand items
that normally do not get marked down and more! Want to go and support a good
cause? This time Belk has included the National Women in Blues in Wilmington
NC as one of it's groups worthy of support and you can help the WiB AND go
to the sale all for only $5 and that comes back to you if you make any purchase
at the sale!

Here is how it works:

1) You buy the
ticket from us at the WiB and we mail it to you or you can pick it up from
me.
2) You go to the sale when regular customers are not allowed in the
doors!
3) You get huge discounts AND $5 off your purchase for your ticket
purchased from the WiB.

We get to keep the funds to help with our
operations and you get to save lots of money on items you would normally buy and
other things you might not have thought to buy if not for the great sale prices
at this 'once a season' sale.

If you have a credit card you can
buy your ticket now through this PayPal link and you don't need a PayPal account
to use it, just a credit card. You can also snail mail a check or money order
made out to the WiB to: WiB/Belk Tickets PO Box 27 Wilmington, NC
28402.

Via PayPal with any major Credit Card:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=642710
(You
can click the link or copy and paste it to your browser)

Buy a
ticket today or buy several and take some friends! You get a deal and help the
WiB all for only $5!

www.belk.com and www.nationalwomeninblues.com

Thanks for
considering this!

Sincerely

Michele
Michele
Seidman
WiB CBW

3rd National Women In Blues Festival, September 26th 2008 Wilmington North Carolina

Michele Seidman sent me a notice of her excellent blue festival via Facebook. Michele runs the Women In Blues Festival in Wilmington North Carolina. I know I have a lot of readers from the area so you better make your way over there and check out some great blues.

"3rd National Women in Blues Festival" on Friday, September 26 at 6:00pm.

Michele says, "Dear Friends

If you like blues, or music in general or adore female singers or just plain love a great music festival then come on out to the National Women in Blues Festival the last weekend of September here in Wilmington NC. Hope to see you!".

Event: 3rd National Women in Blues Festival
"The WiB, where women are more than a side note!"
What: Concert
Host: Michele Seidman
Start Time: Friday, September 26 at 6:00pm
End Time: Saturday, September 27 at 12:00pm
Where: Greenfield Ampitheatre & The Cellar Downtown

Cool Blues Fest Alert!! National Women In Blues Festival!!!

Just in today!!! GO TO THIS FESTIVAL!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUGUST 7TH 2008

NATIONAL WOMEN IN BLUES FESTIVAL

It is time for the 3rd National Women in Blues Festival in Wilmington North Carolina this September 26th and 27th 2008. Still leveling the playing field for the women of and bringing in another great line up with artists from coast to coast including headliners from coast to coast like Gaye Abegdebola on Friday and Candye Kane on Saturday. Both ladies are well known to the blues world as powerful performers.

Many in Wilmington are familiar with Gaye from her multiple appearances with Saffire– the Uppity Blues Women. She has toured nationally and internationally, and has won numerous awards including the prestigious Blues Music Award (the Grammy of the blues industry). As of Summer 2008, Adegbalola has 12 CDs in national distribution, including 3 on her own label, Hot Toddy Music. This years festival is in for a double treat as Gaye will be bringing her History of Women in Blues from the 1920s to today. She shares video and/or audio clips from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, from Rosetta Tharpe to Big Mama Thornton, from Etta Baker to Etta James and many others. She illuminates how the history of working class black women is documented in blues lyrics and after the screening and short intermission she will return to the stage with her musicians to do a live show.

Candye is no stranger to the blues world and brings a dynamic to the stage seldom seen in our region. Candye Kane may still be a well-kept mainstream secret but in most underground circles, her diva status is legendary. She has been making music professionally for over two decades and toured worldwide since 1992, performing for amazingly diverse audiences. She played at the French Embassy in Rome for the President of Italy, headlined the Rhythm Riot, a rockabilly and R&B festival in the UK, and belted it out alongside Ray Charles at the Cognac Blues Festival. She slayed em' at the Cannes Film Festival, kept them enthralled at New York Gay Pride and most recently, helped organize a thirteen city tour of the Netherlands for special needs kids.

Also on this years festival line up we see the return of NY solo blues woman Sarah Lemiuex who’s smoky, silky voice, and unique brand of "storytelling" blues and jazz are getting people hooked all over the world, from Quebecois radio shows to Australian podcasts and everywhere in between. Also returning is Greensboro blues artist Patty Benson who Alan Shuttro of Blues Wax said "Patty Benson doesn't just sing the blues-she whispers, cries and even belts out the blues. Her vocals ring with confidence and emotion. She's sultry and bold as she spills out her lyrics on each and every song." New to this years stage is Peggy Ratusz and Big Road who recently played the semi-finals of the 2008 International Blues Challenge representing NC's own Piedmont Blues Preservation Society's after winning their last Blues Challenge. As she does each year, our festival will open with the Regions Grandmother of Blues, Mrs Rose Lucas backed by her husband Charlie Lucas. Both are well known to area music lovers and the blues community This year will also include a blues jam on Saturday afternoon that will be hosted by Michele and the Midnight Blues who represented the Cape Fear Blues Society in the 2006 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.. Expect a few surprise at the jam and some special guest performers too! Check the web site often for up dates and additions!

This years festival takes place in two locations showcasing the areas diversity. Friday night will take place at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater over looking Greenfield Lake where Richard Geer and Kim Bassinger shot scenes for the film No Mercy and Saturday night will be at one of the areas newest clubs The Cellar next to the Cape Fear River in downtown Wilmington, The Saturday afternnon jam will also take place at the Cellar. Tickets on sale through the web site but the Saturday Jam in the afternoon is FREE and open to the public. Regular tickets are $20 per night ($25 at the gate/door) or $40 for a weekend pass. Those who want in on the reserved seating at both venues can become individual sponsors for $100 for the weekend (this includes 2 weekend passes with reserved seating both nights and a perk bag of goodies) Both locations serve food and drink and we will have some additional vendors on site.

Join us for another addition of the National Women in Blues Festival and support great women artists and the one true musical genre that was born in the USA of the African American experience. Having moved a little earlier in the Fall season we expect great weather, so be prepared to feel the warm breeze on your skin and Magnolia in the air at WiB 3.

http://www.adegbalola.com/

http://www.candyekane.com/

www.nationallwomeninblues.com